Ibrahim Sarrouj

Ibrahim Sarrouj was the owner of the Saeh Bookstore of Tripoli, Lebanon and a Catholic priest.

Biography
Ibrahim Sarrouj was from a family of Lebanese Maronites, and he became a Catholic priest and owner of the Saeh Bookstore. He published many books and had historical sources in his bookstore - which had 70,000 books in it - but on 4 January 2014 Muslim assailants shot and wounded an employee and torched the place after they alleged that Sarrouj had insulted Islam in one of his books. The bookstore was later repaired and reopened, and Sarrouj talked about his experience to VICE News, saying that most Lebanese supported peace and only a few were extremists.